Global bridges in an International Organization which aims to create a coordinated global healthcare provider network that advocates for effective tobacco control policies around the world and reduces the health burden of tobacco use through best practices in tobacco dependence treatment. Global Bridges has joined forces with experienced regional partners to advance evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment and tobacco control policy in their areas.

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry is a faculty of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). According to the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry is place within the top seven UK institutions in all three Units of Assessment – Clinical Medicine; Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care; and Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy. Research is focused on translational research\, cancer, cardiac, dentistry, inflammation, endocrinology/metabolism, immunology and infectious diseases, genomics, neuroscience, gastroenterology, epidemiology and primary care.